In Poland, homelessness and alcohol use are often deeply entangled, with dependence frequently shaping the trajectories and concerns of everyday life on the street. Through ethnographic attention directed toward unhoused residents of Kraków, this paper traces how alcohol use is laboriously maintained through practices of self-care and mutual support, revealing a habituated commitment that persists despite legal, moral, and institutional forces arrayed against it. The analysis foregrounds the tension between this regulatory milieu and the teleology of dependence, showing how maintaining alcohol use becomes a political practice of holding life together beyond societal recognition. What biomedical and moralizing discourses cast as “disorder” emerges ethnographically as an organized and organizing practice with its own ordering principles and modes of justification. In this reframing, substance use appears as a form of reproductive labor directed toward the self: a way of maintaining coherence—and life itself—under conditions shaped by dependence.